As museums worldwide shuttered in 2020 because of the coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders. In a moment when economic, political, and cultural shifts are signaling the start of a new era, the directors speak candidly about the historical limitations and untapped potential of art museums. Each of the twenty-eight conversations in this book explores a particular topic of relevance to art institutions today and tomorrow. What emerges from the series of in-depth conversations is a composite portrait of a generation of museum leaders working to make institutions more open, democratic, inclusive, experimental and experiential, technologically savvy, culturally polyphonic, attuned to the needs of their visitors and communities, and concerned with addressing the defining issues of the societies around them. The dialogues offer glimpses of how museums around the globe are undergoing an accelerated phase of reappraisal and reinvention. 

 

 

Conversation Partners:

Marion Ackermann, Cecilia Alemani, Anton Belov, Meriem Berrada, Daniel Birnbaum, Thomas P. Campbell, Tania Coen-Uzzielli, Rhana Devenport, María Mercedes González, Max Hollein, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Mami Kataoka, Brian Kennedy, Koyo Kouoh, Sonia Lawson, Adam Levine, Victoria Noorthoorn, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anne Pasternak, Adriano Pedrosa, Suhanya Raffel, Axel Rüger, Katrina Sedgwick, Franklin Sirmans, Eugene Tan, Philip Tinari, Marc-Olivier Wahler, Marie-Cécile Zinsou



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Contents

Introduction: Ambition & Anxiety: Reimagining the Art Museum

SUHANYA RAFFEL Location

VICTORIA NOORTHOORN Museums for Everybody

FRANKLIN SIRMANS Equity

MARIE-CÉCILE ZINSOU Museums from Scratch

ANNE PASTERNAK Community

ADRIANO PEDROSA De-Westernization

TANIA COEN-UZZIELLI Think Global, Act Local

EUGENE TAN Rethinking Art Museums in Asia

KOYO KOUOH Museums in Africa

MARÍA MERCEDES GONZÁLEZ Latin American Museums

PHILIP TINARI Learning from China

RHANA DEVENPORT Indigenous Voices

THOMAS P. CAMPBELL Museums & Public Trust

MERIEM BERRADA Lowering Barriers

ANTON BELOV Museum as Campus

MARION ACKERMANN Museums & Political Power

HANS ULRICH OBRIST Ecology & Slow Programming

SONIA LAWSON Art & Biodiversity

MAX HOLLEIN Contemporaneity

CECILIA ALEMANI The Public Realm

BRIAN KENNEDY Visual Literacy

SANDRA JACKSON-DUMONT Education & Inclusion

DANIEL BIRNBAUM Museums & Technology

KATRINA SEDGWICK Immersive Experiences

AXEL RÜGER Museum as Business

ADAM LEVINE Quality in the Twenty-first Century

MAMI KATAOKA Museums for a Better Future

MARC-OLIVIER WAHLER The Post-Museum

Acknowledgements



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